Attâh-Gibbor-Leholâm-Adonâi ("Thou art strong for ever, O Lord!"), and signifies either "I reveal," or "a drop of dew," and is the cabbalistic name of God.
They also reversed this process, and made an entire sentence from the letters of one word: thus of ב ר א ש ת Bereshith, which is the first word of Genesis, they made the sentence
Bârâ-Râkiya-Eretz-Shâmayim-Yâm-Tehomoth (i.e. "he created the firmament, the earth, the heavens, the sea, and the deep"). It would, however, be more correctly written
Vide Dr. Hook's Church Dictionary, art. Cabbala.
In Arnaud's work on the Vaudois, translated by Acland (Murray, 1825), there is mention made of certain inscribed talismans or preservatives, found on the slain French soldiers of Marshal Catinat, the inscriptions of which are given, and among them is one bearing the legend [+]AGVA[+]BATOME[+].
E. S. TAYLOR.
The word "AGLA" mentioned by your correspondent MR. MARTIN as being inscribed on a ring, is mentioned by Reginald Scott in his Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), as being inscribed on the conjuring knives employed to describe the circles used in calling spirits. He gives a cut of "the fashion or form of the conjuring knife, and the names thereon to be engraved," and on one side is AGLA.